Sunday, 19 October 2008

Reality TV Bites

Britain has a big problem. The dead are returning to life and attacking the living. The people they kill get up and kill – and it’s spreading like wildfire. Curiously, there are a few people left in Britain who aren’t worried about any of this – that’s because they’re the remaining contestants in Big Brother. Cocooned in the safety of the Big Brother house, they’re blissfully unaware of the horrific events unfolding outside. Until an eviction night when all hell breaks loose.

Kelly, (Jaime Winstone) the production runner working on Big Brother finds herself caught in the impossible position of trying to fend off the walking dead alongside the remaining housemates, Davina herself, a host of former Big Brother housemates, her producer boss Patrick (Andy Nyman) and boyfriend Riq (Riz Ahmed).

Over the ensuing days, in a cruel reflection of the game show they thought they were entering, the contestants fall victim, one by one, to the hungry masses outside. Staying alive requires teamwork – which is tricky when you’re a group specifically selected by TV producers to wind each other up.

What a funny premise...should be interesting. It would be really funny if the zombies were mixed in with the breathers...then they could fight about who-ate-whos-brains-although-they-were-in-the-fridge-with-my-goddamn-name-written-on-them, and they could do the confessionals Blair Witch-style.

In a similar vein, I finally got around to renting Shaun of the Dead last night, and it was one of the top five funniest movies I've ever seen.